NP: Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit

[alice wellintown]

The assumption that one always writes to be read retards development.
The rhetorical method: topic purpose, audience, form, or Subject,
Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker (SOAPS), can provide much needed
structure and organization to writers in the early stages of
development, but the conversational method has as much merit as the
traditional and conventional paragraphing method. Blog away and  aim
away and text away and scribble away and keep notes in the margin and
doodle  . . . and pun and play and tom fool errrr,  for it is often
when we errr that we discover. That a reader must be subjected to our
errrs is another matter, but to argue that the egg on Alice's face is
Humpty's yoke is to stretch a weighty metaphor tautologically across
the broad shoulders of weak oxens and plow the boundaries of
blunderland.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> Having said that, I must add that
>> a) I personally think his statements unnecessarily bald and rude.
>
> If these statements were being made in terms of the "Old Atlantic", the "Old
> New Yorker"—Yes, I would say that they were bald 'n rude and kinda OTT.
>
> But in the current realm of blogging, I believe they're a salient
> corrective. As for the rest—once you're got coherency down, the rest takes
> care of itself naturally.
>
>